“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”

“Here's what it is, here's what it isn't, now here's why you need to go tell everyone how smart I am.”

“Laugh heals smart people, but it insults the stupid ones.”

“You know what I can't understand? You have all these people telling you all the time how great you are, smart and funny and talented and all that, I mean endlessly, I've been telling you for years. So why don't you believe it? why do you think people say that stuff, Em? Do you think it's a conspiracy, people secretly ganging up to be nice about you?”

“I don't want to make people mad. I just... well, how can people get better if you don't tell them what you honestly think?”

“No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?”